Steve....what is it you don't understand about the error
messages you've received from the BootMagic installation?
As a guess I'd probably go with #1 as the reason. Which is that
your windows partition (the one that you're trying to install
BootMagic on) is larger than 8 meg (8 meg on today's drives, is
the size that corresponds with the 1024 cylinder limit), so
BootMagic cannot (will not) install.
One solution is to shrink your windows partition down to around
8 meg (so that it ends on the 1023rd cylinder or less).
Or alternately, you could move your windows partition a little
bit so that there's some free space at the beginning of your
drive and make a dos partition (fat16), install dos, and install
the dos version of BootMagic. I have a drive like this, it
contains a 200 meg dos partition at the very beginning of the
drive (with dos versions of Partition Magic and BootMagic
installed) and then two different distro's of Linux.
The other reason (#2 BootMagic already installed on a hidden
partition) is far less likely to be the cause.
Concerning the ATA/66 controller, I've no experience with it. I
do believe that there is a solution though, I'm just unfamiliar
with it.
Alan
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>
> Hello all,
>
> First I'll state my current system configuration:
>
> Gateway 700MHz PIII, 192MB PC100, IBM DeskStar 27.4GB running on Promise PCI
> ATA/66 Controller Card, 32MB nVidia GeForce 256, Soundblaster Live!
>
> I am currently running into two problems during installation of Mandrake 7.0.
>
> The First: After partitioning my drive using Partition Magic to a 4.084GB
> partition for Linux, I try to install BootMagic. The intallation within
> Windows gives me an error message to the effect of: BootMagic Installation
> cannot complete because: 1. There is no FAT16 or FAT32 partition available
> under the 1024 cylinder or, 2. BootMagic is already installed on a hidden
> partition. Any ideas?
>
> The Second, more important problem: When running the DrakX installation
> utillity from CD-ROM I get to the drive mounting point, only to find that
> Linux is not recognizing my drive (I suspect this is because my hdd is
> running from the ATA/66 Controller) I have tried all the drivers listed and
> none of them will work. Also I found some instructions geared for Red Hat 6.1
> where you enter "text" at the boot: prompt and make changes manually.
> Mandrake 7 gives me the message, unable to locate kernel image "text".
>
> Is anyone willing to give me detailed instructions on how to fix this? I
> have never even seen Linux running except for screenshots, so please explain
> in plain terms.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Steve Gillson
> "DJ Phrenzy"
